Course Identification

Title:

Condensed-Matter Physics: The Experiments

Code:

20211081

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Dan Shahar

TA's:

Franzisca Gorniaczyk

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2021

Semester:

First Semester

When / Where:

Monday, 11:15 - 13:00
Wednesday, 11:15 - 13:00

First Lecture:

26/10/2020

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Physical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; Regular; 4.00 points
Chemical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; Regular; 4.00 points
Chemical Sciences (Materials Science Track): Lecture; Elective; Regular; 4.00 points

Comments

All courses in the first semester will be held on-line via zoom.

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

Participants:

30

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Required in at least 80% of the lectures

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Assignments:

5%

Final:

95%

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

2

Syllabus

The field of condensed-matter through the review of key experiments. These topics include:

[1] Liquefaction of Helium and the discovery of superconductivity
[2] The Hall effect and quantum Hall effect
[3] Scanning tunneling microscopy
[4] Superlattices and band-gap engineering
[5] Nanotubes, graphene and carbon physics
[6] The transistor
[7] Phase transitions
[8] Open to suggestions

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

[1] describe and discuss basic concepts of condensed-matter physics as they are manifested in experiments.

Reading List

N/A

Website

N/A